Gina Scarnati
Costumer Designer

Ms. Scarnati has designed and constructed costumes and crafts for numerous performance groups throughout the United States.  Her talents have led her to create everything from hats, for the Utah Shakespearean Festival’s productions of Peter Pan, The Cherry Orchard and War of the Roses, to doublets and corsets for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s As You Like It, and masks for The Roswell Follies: an Alien Revue.

Most recently she has created lavish, jeweled and feathered headpieces for Opera Delaware’s 2003 production of La Traviata and this year’s performance of Magic Flute.  Sculpting, painting and producing 66 rather hairy feet for Opera Delaware’s children’s performance of The Hobbit, along with troll and goblin masks, was a special treat for someone who loves working with young performers.  Ms. Scarnati is thrilled to be a guest artist for Arts Aware 2004, a Delaware program that aims to enrich the core curriculum of state schools by incorporating music, and the visual arts, in the classroom.  She is also a new participant of Studio 91, a Delaware artist’s studio, which she uses to showcase her collection of corsets, scarves and custom clothing, also retailed in boutiques from Aspen to Philadelphia.

 As a student, Ms. Scarnati attended the University of Delaware, where, as a Dean Scholar, she created her own major in order to train with Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP).  She has also dressed for Fendi, in Aspen, worked extensively with Olympic ice-skaters, the Russian Ballet, and built costumes for the international performance troupe, Fear No Ice.